OPINION - Dissent over Gaza hysteria doesn’t make you a genocidal monster
As so often in my life, after a few days of reflection I’ve found myself looking at both sides of an argument thinking “a plague on both your houses”. That’s the polite version anyway. Since the spectacle of parliamentary procedure being for fear of mob violence, we’ve witnessed a week of “my threat is worse than your threat” and “my fear is worse than your fear” one-upmanship. Our national teenage crush on binary bullshit merely demonstrates what all extremists seek to avoid revealing: that they are as unpleasant as each other.
